Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
HANS KUNGWe are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God’s infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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